The Lottery Sacrifice

In the short story The Lottery by shirley Jackson, A small village continues a yearly sacrifice in form of “The Lottery”. A major theme within this short story is that social pressure cna leads to bad decision making. In the story, people followed the elderly stps as they were told because everyone was doing so. On page 8, “Come on, Come on everyone.” As the reader, this tells me that the villagers are under social pressure and were told to do whatever whether is wrong is not.
In connection with this, compared to this, another theme that is present in The Lottery is the idea that sacrifice may benefit the village and believe is okay to do so. In the story, villager continue their ritual and participate in The lottery believing the fact that